In this issue's Reviews...

Once again our reviewers have ranged far and wide, confronting a diverse array of archaeological issues, to give you a taste of some of the latest books, conferences, museums, radio and television programmes.

Books

• Jennie Hawcroft reviews W. Noble's and I. Davidson's Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological and Archaeological Enquiry.
• Martin Evison reviews The Prehistory of the Mind by S. Mithen.
• Rowan May reviews Dartmoor: Book of Dartmoor Landscapes Through Time by S. Gerrard.
• Andy Tyrrell reviews Stephen Shennan's Quantifying Archaeology.
• Tim Clarkson reviews A Pictish Panorama: the Story of the Picts and a Pictish Bibliography, edited by E. Nicoll.
• Melanie Giles reviews the volume edited by Adam Gwilt and Colin Haselgrove, Reconstructing Iron Age Societies.
• Nicki Whitehouse reviews the edited volume Conserving Peatlands.
• Vicky Cooper reviews Christopher Tilley's An Ethnography of the Neolithic.
• Janet Fuller previews Dawn Hadley's Images of Masculinity in the Middle Ages, not due out until the summer of 1998!

Conferences

• Melanie Giles discusses the recent meeting of the Aerial Archaeology Research Group.
• Peter Tomkins reviews the Symposium on the Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, held in Urla, Turkey from October 13th to 19th.

Museums

• Melanie Giles (the backbone of the assemblage review team!) tells us about Hull Museum in northern England, a local museum that's well worth visiting.

Television programmes

• Andrew Chamberlain reviews the recent BBC 'Horizon' programme: Out of Asia.

Radio programmes

• Janet Fletcher reviews the recent BBC Radio series: The Romans in Britain.

Have YOU got anything you would like to review for us? Anything archaeological is fair game: books, conferences, films, television, radio, CD-ROMs -- if you've got an opinion, we want to hear it.

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